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Norman Schofield

Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy , Director of the Center in Political Economy, Professor, Department of Political Science

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Degree
Litt. D. (Doctor of Letters) Liverpool University 1986
Degree
Doctorat d’Etat en Sciences Economiques, Universite de Caen 1992
Degree
PhD Essex University in Government (1976) Economics (1986)
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seigle hall 240
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Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1027
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone
314-935-5630
Email
schofield.norman@gmail.com

Research specialization

Selected Publications

Books

Social Choice and Democracy Springer 1986

Multiparty Government: the politics of coalition in Europe (with Michael Laver) OUP 1990, reprinted Michigan UP (1998).

Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice. Vol. 17 in Studies in Economic Theory, Springer 300 pp. February 2003. Paperback, March 2004.

Architects of Political Change:Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory.. Cambridge University Press, 317 pp June, 2006. view book

Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (co-authored with I. Sened).Cambridge University Press .223pp August, 2006. view book 

The Spatial Model of  Politics. Routledge (Volume 95 in the Routledge Series of Political Economy) Abingdon UK and New York . January  2008 ,320pp. Hardback view book

 

 

 The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny, Oldenbourg: Munich. 350pp.  January 2009. Paperback. view book 

 

PolEcon of Democracy(edited with Aragones et al. 2008, Barcelona) view book

Rationality (issue of SCW, edited with Nachbar, Salles and Wooders, 2001) view issue

PolEcon of Elections (edited with Gallego and Kilgour, 2011, SCW) view book 

PolEcon of Institutions (edited with Caballero,  July 2011,Springer) view book

Political Economy (ed with Rutten and Fallaschetti July 2011, Routledge) view book

 Leadership or Chaos (with Gallego, springer,July2011) view book

Articles

Caucasus (JEPOP April2012, with Gallego, Jeon et al.) view paper

US elections 2000 and 2004 (with Claassen, Ozdemmir and Gallego, Springer July 2011) view paper

Anocracies and Autocracies(with Gallego:forthcoming 2011) view paper 

structural stability (IJBSS 2011) view paper

moral sentiments and climate (Harvard College Economics review 2011) view paper

Chaos or stability (Czech Economic Review 2011) view paper

UK elections 2005 and 2010 (Electoral stud 2011,30:484-496 with Gallego and Jeon) view paper

US election 2008 and Israel (SCW 2011, with Claassen et al) view paper

Turkey (SCW 2011, with Gallego et al) view paper

Support for political leaders (with Schnidman, HOEC 28, 2011) view paper

"A stochastic Model of the 2007 Russian Duma election" (with Alexei Zakharov) Public Choice 142 (2010): 177-194.view article

"Social Orders" SCW 34 (2010): 503-536.view article

Applications of a formal model (with Claassen, Ozdemir and Zakharov, 2010, IJMS) view article

"Formal Models of Elections and Political Bargaining" (with Ugur Ozdemir) Czech Economic Review 3 (2009):207-242. view article

Modelling Authoritarian Regimes (PPE, 2008,with Micah Levinson) view paper 

"An Activist Model of Democracy" in The Political Economy of Democracy, ed E.Aragones et al,  Barcelona: BBVA Foundation (2009).view paper

"Switching Equilibria" in Legislative Parties ed Heller and Mershon, Macmillan (2009) view paper

The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Coalitions in the US (with Gary Miller) Perspectives on Politics 6(2008):433-450 view paper

Divergence in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting," in Power, Freedom and Voting, Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen, eds. (2008) view paper

"Social Choice" in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Systems. Oxford (2008) view paper

"Democratic Paradoxes.," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. L.Blume and S.Durlauf, eds. Macmillan, 2008).view paper

Modelling Political Economy (HOEC 2008) view paper

"The Mean Voter Theorem: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Convergent Equilibrium.". The Review of Economic Studies ,74(3).(July 2007): 965-980. view paper
"A Model of Political Competition with Activists applied to elections in Argentina , 1985-1995." (with Guido Cataife). MathSoc Sci, 53(3) ( May, 2007): 213-231.view paper
"Elections and Activists Coalitions in the United States." ( with Gary Miller). The American Journal of Political Science 51(3) (July 2007):518-531.view paper
"Political Equilibrium with Electoral Uncertainty." Social Choice and Welfare 28 (April, 2007):461-490. view paper

"Social Choice and Elections." In A Positive Change in Political Science:The Legacy of Richard D.McKelvey's Writings,J.Alt,J.Aldrich and A.Lupia,eds. University of Michigan Press (September, 2007) pp. 205-222. view paper
" Equilibria in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting with Party Activists."The Review of Economic Design.10 (3)(December 2006): 183-203.view paper

Local Equilibria view paper

BJPS (2005, with Sened) view paper

EJPR (2005, with Sened view paper

Jour Theor Pol 2004 view paper

Elect Stud 2005 view paper

Condorcet SCW 2005 view paper

Activists and partisan realignment (with Gary Miller, APSR, 2003) view paper

PPE (2003) view paper

Political Studies (2003) view paper

Politics and Society (2002) view paper

Politics and Society (1999) view paper

The election of Lincoln in 1860(with Kim Dixon, Homo Oeconomicus 17,2001) view paper

 

Handbook of social choice 2002) view paper 
AOR (2002) view paper
AOR (1998) view paper

 Public Choice (1998, with Martin et al) view paper

New Int Econ Order view paper

 

Awards

Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow at Manchester University 1982-3; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech 1983-4; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, Stanford 1988-9.

Elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 2005.
Recipient with G.Miller of the Jack L.Walker prize for the best article on Political Parties in the APSR, 2004. and the Riker prize for contributions to political theory 2002.

Courses

ps 4552,5552 Syllabus

ps 3552 Syllabus 

Biographical Information

Norman Schofield is Director of the Center in Political Economy, the William R. Taussig Professor of Political Economy, and Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working on topics in the theory of social choice, political economy, and democracy. In 2003-4 he was the Fulbright distinguished professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and has recently held fellowships at ICER in Turin, and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. In Spring 2008 he was the visiting Leitner Professor at Yale University.

His earlier books include Multiparty Government (with Michael Laver, in 1990), Social Choice and Democracy (1985), and three co-edited volumes: Political Economy: Institutions, Information, and Representation (1993) ,and Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics (1995), (both with Cambridge University Press), and Collective Decision Making (Kluwer, 1996). His more recent books include Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice ( Springer in 2003). Architects of Political Change (2006), Multiparty Democracy (with Itai Sened, 2006), both with Cambridge University Press, The Spatial Model of Politics (Routledge, 2008), and The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny (Oldenbourg. 2009). He just co-edited a special issue of Social Choice and Welfare on Elections and Bargaining. A book entitled Leadership or Chaos, with Gallego, includes analyses of elections in Britain, Canada, the US, Turkey,  Russia and Poland, and was published by Springer in August 2011.  Two co-edited volumes on political economy, one with Caballero and one with Falaschetti and Rutten, were published by Springer and Routledge, respectively, in July 2011. He has been the recipient of a number of NSF awards, most recently one on electoral politics and regime change.

Working Papers

 

  1. Poland (all tables,with Tavits et al 2011) view paper
  2. Canada(all tables, with Gallego. Jeon and  Ozdemir 2011) view paper
  3. UK elections:all tables with Jeon and Gallego, 2011 view paper
  4. modeling elections in georgia and aizerbaijan  (with Gallego, Muskhelishvili and Jeon, JEPOP2012) view paper
  5. activists and trade (with Galiani and TorrensJAPET, 2012) view paper
  6. catastropheRED 2012 view paper
  7. leadership(wpsa meetingwith Schnidman) view paper
  8. activists in US elections (with schnidman: submit-PPE2012) view paper
  9. Argentina (Cataife and SchofieldAIJCR, Vol1 2012) view paper
  10. post-communist regimes (APSA paper, with Gallego, Jeon, Tavits, Ozdemir. 2011) view paper
  11. APSA post comm.ppt view ppt
  12. Britain class view ppt
  13. topology and social choice view paper
  14. class presentation view ppt
  15. georgia presentation view ppt

 

Curriculum Vitae 
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